So some of you may have seen that I recently suffered an engine failure in my ep3 with a hole in the side of my block.
After shopping around I was offered an engine which had only done 42000 miles amd was from a 2005 car. I paid more than I had originally planned too due to low mileage and because it was from a face-lift and I wanted the lighter weight flywheel, I had not seen the engine prior to purchasing it, but it comes with 2 month warantee and was sold to me as being tested and in good condition.
The engine was delivered today and I have a small doubt in the back of my mind over what I have been told, hopefully one of you will be able to shed some light on it.
Did all face-lift EP3s come with the lighter flywheel?
The new engine seems to habe a solid flywheel and from Googling them, the face-lift one looks like it has "holes" around the outside of it, is that right?
I have the engine numbers, is there a way to tell the age of the car/engine from that?does anyone know their engine numbers to compare it too
The red paint on The valve cover is flaking off in a number of places, I know this happens in time but would this be the case at just 42k??
Ill try to post some pics up, hopefully I'll have an answer soon as I'm waiting to work on a few things on the engine before I install it and obviously don't want to do that if I have been sold a dud and I need to send it back!
Thanks
Vtecben
After shopping around I was offered an engine which had only done 42000 miles amd was from a 2005 car. I paid more than I had originally planned too due to low mileage and because it was from a face-lift and I wanted the lighter weight flywheel, I had not seen the engine prior to purchasing it, but it comes with 2 month warantee and was sold to me as being tested and in good condition.
The engine was delivered today and I have a small doubt in the back of my mind over what I have been told, hopefully one of you will be able to shed some light on it.
Did all face-lift EP3s come with the lighter flywheel?
The new engine seems to habe a solid flywheel and from Googling them, the face-lift one looks like it has "holes" around the outside of it, is that right?
I have the engine numbers, is there a way to tell the age of the car/engine from that?does anyone know their engine numbers to compare it too
The red paint on The valve cover is flaking off in a number of places, I know this happens in time but would this be the case at just 42k??
Ill try to post some pics up, hopefully I'll have an answer soon as I'm waiting to work on a few things on the engine before I install it and obviously don't want to do that if I have been sold a dud and I need to send it back!
Thanks
Vtecben